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It could work...

If you lived in Atlantis.

Many people did. If you have a few minutes to waste, you can listen to the CEO at

She just loves us "jaded" "narrow minded" "linear thinking" "prejudiced" engineers. She's definitely arguing along the lines of: - all revolutionary products were at some point considered crazy ideas - this is a crazy idea, therefore it will be a revolutionary product.

And, at 14:25 she can't wait to give negative engineers the middle finger. Translation: agree with her or suffer.

it works just fine for it's main purpose; moving money into her pockets

-Lasse

Actually, I have no reason to believe that such a technology won't work. The problem is, you'd need to transmit ultrasonic energy at SUCH a HUGE power level, it would be very dangerous for any living thing to be around. I can "sense" ultrasonic alarm sensors at some stores, it feels like a pressure in my head, and sometimes a "ringing" in my ears.

I find it hard to believe anybody with the slightest bit of physics knowledge would believe such a ting could be a practical technology.

Before governments gave them (millions of!!) funding, didn't they ask anybody with a science background if they saw any problems?

Jon

Is she a dropout? You have to be a dropout to be successful these days.

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I had a U.S. congressman whip out a 1-AAA LED flashlight and ask me why, if an AAA-alkaline can run a flashlight, why can't we run cars on them? You know, clean, electric power.

He was part of a group of lawmakers getting ready to spend your money on such a thing.

I wrote him a note explaining how many AAA's it would take to run a car, and how much that would cost per mile.

(You're welcome.)

We need to put the federal government in charge of more stuff. They're really great at everything :-)

Cheers, James Arthur

afaict she is an astrobiologist what ever that is. I'm sure this pays much better

but she is a women, it creates headlines for VCs that want to be seen as "progressive" and makes it easy to silence criticism as misogyny.

also it shouldn't take $25M to do a proof-of-concept

-Lasse

That idea needs a billion, at least.

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Most politicians are people-people, ie innumerate.

Aren't the batteries in Teslas about AA size? Something like 7000 of them.

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-Lasse

No. They're 18650 cells (18 x 65mm): AA batteries are about 14 x 50mm.

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That's "about."

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The contrapositive does not work that way!

Kool aid.

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The "about" is intentional so I could round off the numbers.

AA batteries vary somewhat in size. An AA cell measures 49.2 - 50.5 mm (1.94 - 1.99 in) in length, including the button terminal, and 13.5 - 14.5 mm (0.53 - 0.57 in) in diameter. So it is written, so it must be.

The small variations in size might seem insignificant, but can be a problem when building battery packs, where the variations tend to accumulate.

18650 dimensions also vary because of an added protection PCB, and the added wire running from the (+) terminal to the protection PCB on the (-) end.

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That kind of person is a malignant cancerous tumor on rationality...

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but apparently it pays well

-Lasse

She probably wants to be Elon Musk when she grows up.

Form a goofy startup, raise $25e6, live it up for a couple of years, and fail. Nowadays, failure is desirable, so you can do it again and again.

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Just saw the video. She is really obnoxious.

It's impressive what you can imagine if you don't use numbers.

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